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` .. <br />DONE, 1980 <br />RURAL FACILITIES PLANNING INCLUDES ALTEItNPTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT STUDIES. <br />The objective of public involvement in sewage disposal is to provide <br />assurance of treatment methods and levels sufficient to safeguard the <br />public health and the natural environment. The objective of sewage <br />treatment planning is to determine the most cost-effective treatment <br />method consistent w_th the primary goal and with the City's other planning <br />objectives. In urban areas, the preferred method is obviously central <br />sewerage. In rural areas, at rural densities, the preferred method is <br />individual on -site treatment and disposal. Where older, develope- housing <br />clusters exist within otherwise rural areas, sewer facilities planning <br />requires the study of a wide range of alternative treatment methods. <br />Orono's Alternative Studies include an inventory and analysis method <br />similar to that included in the MWCC's 201 Alternative Waste Management <br />Systems Evaluation Study. Acceptable solutions for treatment difficulties <br />include the following list of options: <br />1) Alteration of the water consumption habits of the users, coupled <br />with careful system maintenance. <br />2) Repair or reconstruction of individual systems. <br />3) Replacement of existing systems with new individual systems <br />constructed to new City (WPC-40) standards. <br />4) Installation of innovative or. -site systems including consideration <br />of composting or incinerating devices. <br />5) Installation of individual holding tanks with off -site disposal. <br />6) Installation of a collection syst(.n and a community drainfield. <br />7) Tnstallation of a collection System connected to the metropolitan <br />interceptor. <br />8) Condemnation and demolition. <br />All of the foregoing options are self-contained, on -site Llternatives <br />except the connection to municipal :ewer. The Metropolitan Council's <br />Water Quality Management Policy 11 (Pg. W12/79) allows the connection <br />of existing rural development into the interceptor system iZ identified <br />in the CSPP. Orono's Rural Sewage Treatment Policy it allows consideration <br />of such a connection as one alternative to solving a documented health <br />hazard should the on -site systemo fail to function properly. in no case <br />would such sewerage foster new development; it would only be used to <br />correct existing defi,:iencics, and then only if this option is cost- <br />effective compar<d to the other viable: alt..:r.natives. <br />A <br />CMI' 6-44 <br />